Simple, because the “boring billions” never existed. Silly fools.
The Earth;'s evolution involved some massive collisions, one of which was when the Moon separated from our current Earth. And ... since our moon is much less subject to evolutionary changes such as those on Earth, which is subject to wind, water, rain, earthquakes, and spinning in orbit. So it is that scientists used Moon rocks to tell us - factually - that our Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Yeah because the Earth was created at 315pm local time May 15 4004 BC ...